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Shape your institution’s impact with SciVal

Identify strengths, unlock research opportunities and build global partnerships – three ways to lift your institution’s standing in the global academic community. And you can do it all with SciVal.

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Build on your strengths

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Performance metrics from more than 24,000 academic institutions worldwide can help you tailor your research strategy to fit your institution’s particular objectives. 

Here’s more detail about how SciVal can help. Or if you’d like a quick overview, take a look at the video. 

Visualize research performance

SciVal Overview module

High-level insights on your institution’s research performance will give you a vital comparison to peer institutions. 

  • Evaluate institutions, departments and individual researchers  

  • Assess your strengths in specific research areas, publication sets or subject areas 

  • Perform due diligence on potential partners for strategic collaborations

  • Analyze the performance indicators used by global ranking bodies, including Times Higher Education (THE), QS World University Rankings and U.S. News Best National Universities Rankings 

Benchmark performance and progress

SciVal Benchmarking module

Compare your institution’s research performance to peer groups and institutions locally, nationally and globally. 

  • Analyze collaboration partners

  • Stay up to date with developments in key areas of research to keep your strategic planning relevant 

  • Assess institutions’ research performance, rankings and impact metrics to pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses 

  • Build insightful reports

  • Evaluate your contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Build stronger teams & partnerships

SciVal collaboration module

SciVal can help you find potential research partners, and track your existing collaborators.  

  • Evaluate existing partnerships using interactive maps and tables

  • Identify new opportunities for collaboration

  • Easily find the insights you need – filter by subject, location, sector and umber of authors

Monitor research developments

SciVal Trends module

Keep up with new developments in any research field. Investigate trends, analyze advances and identify leading experts worldwide.  

  • Track developments to gain a understanding of how a field is evolving

  • Refine your interests to uncover the insights that matter most to your institution

  • Understand the key researchers and institutions contributing to a research field to inform collaboration and recruitment initiatives

Show how you’re shaping society

SciVal Impact module

Demonstrate the broader societal impact of your institution’s research. 

  • View metrics and insights that reveal the real-world difference your institution makes

  • Quickly dentify policy mentions and patent citations

  • Develop impact narratives to strengthen funding bids and case studies with credible evidence

  • Strengthen promotion, tenure and job applications with impact analytics and narratives

  • Showcase your broader societal impact to funding bodies, governments and potential donors 

Refine your funding strategies

SciVal Grants module

With a comprehensive view of the external funding landscape, you can sharpen your institution’s strategic research planning. 

  • Find active funding bodies in areas of strategic interest

  • Identify leading funding recipients and analyze peer strategies to inform your own approach

  • Explore emerging trends in relevant fields to uncover growth opportunities

Stay in the know

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As your needs change over time, we continually improve SciVal to keep it effective for you. Take a look at our roadmap to see our recent releases and the developments we’re planning.

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How SciVal can help you

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Worldwide coverage

Analyze the research performance of global institutions and their affiliated researchers.
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Grounded in trusted Scopus data

SciVal is built on a foundation of comprehensive, authoritative data you can rely on.
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Tailored reports

Generate customized reports to inform decisions, track progress and update stakeholders.
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UN SDG research benchmarking

Champion inclusivity and sustainability by exploring global SDG-related research and benchmarking your performance against peers.
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Transparent ranking bibliometrics

Access the actual bibliometrics used in major university rankings from THE, QS and U.S. News & World Report.
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In-depth research performance overview

Perform analysis and scenario modeling for any researcher or research group in the world, based on full publication history through our Scopus Author Profiles.

“With SciVal’s wide range of metrics, we were able to make accurate assessments of the impact of our researchers”

Pernille Hamburger Grøngaard

Pernille Hamburger Grøngaard

Research Librarian at the Research Support Office at Aahrus University

Frequently asked questions

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